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Following the Cinematograph Film Production (Special Loans) Act 1949, the National Film Finance Corporation (NFFC) was established as a British film funding agency. The Eady Levy , named after Sir Wilfred Eady was a tax on box office receipts in the United Kingdom in order to support the British Film industry.
The BFI was established in 1933 to encourage the development of the arts of film, television and the moving image throughout the United Kingdom, to promote their use as a record of contemporary life and manners, to promote education about film, television and the moving image generally, and their impact on society, to promote access to and appreciation of the widest possible range of British ...
Time Out 100 best British films; Films considered the greatest ever; BFI TV 100 – a list of the best British television programmes; AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies; 100 Italian films to be saved; In 2004, the BFI compiled a list of the 100 biggest UK cinematic hits of all time based on audience viewing, the list was released as a book.
British film is well represented, with about half the films on the list qualifying as British productions; however, due to the globalization of the film industry most successful British productions since the start of the twenty-first century have been co-produced with other countries. While there is no universally accepted definition of a film ...
The British film industry has a complex attitude to Hollywood. It has been argued that the size of the domestic British cinema market makes it impossible for the British film industry to successfully produce Hollywood-style blockbusters over a sustained period without U.S. involvement. [19]
The collection now known as the BFI National Archive was founded as the National Film Library in 1935 by Ernest Lindgren, who was the first curator.The BFI National Archive now comprises over 275,000 titles in total consisting of feature, non-fiction, short films (dating from 1894), 210,000 television programmes and some artists' films.
These were the finest films produced by the British film industry between 2010-2019. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us ...
'The British Film Industry's Production Sector Difficulties in the Late 1930s', John Sedgwick, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, vol. 17, no. 1 (1997), pp. 49–66. The Unknown 1930s: An Alternative History of the British Cinema 1929–1939 , Jeffrey Richards, Manchester, I.B. Tauris (2001).